By Isaac • August 22, 2026 7:20 pm •
Bitcoin’s next security fight may not begin with a genius hacker finding one obscure bug by hand.
It may begin with an inexpensive AI model reading thousands of public code repositories faster than their maintainers can review them.
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That threat has pushed a volunteer group of roughly two dozen developers and security researchers into an emergency sweep of the software surrounding Bitcoin. Their target is not Bitcoin’s consensus protocol.
It is the much larger layer of wallets, Lightning tools, libraries, payment services and other applications people actually touch.
Decrypt reported that the Bitcoin Red Team has scanned much of the ecosystem’s significant open-source software and is working privately with project maintainers to classify findings and get
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